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48 A HEROIC REMEDY. beautifuler they could not find, no, not at the sah itself, if Ido say it. Mercy me! what's that?” She pushed the dishes on the shelf and listened. Surely a low knock at the kitchen door. Now, who could it be coming to see her at that time o’ night? And Goody stopped at the cupboard to think it out instead of going to — the door. But whoever it was might be modest enough to — knock softly, and yet not be over patient, for while Goody was still wondering who it could be there came another knock. Then she opened the door, and was about to exclaim — aloud at the sight of a tall young man standing there, but — the young man laid his finger on his lips and said “Sh-h !” and smiled, and so Goody retreated into the room and stood ready to flee if need were. “T know you must be Goody White,” said the young man, so pleasantly that Goody answered in the same low tone that he used. ‘So they call me that have the right. Mrs.———” “Tt was Violet taught me to call you so,” said the young man. Goody started with a sudden thought, and stepped nearer, that she might have a better look at her visitor. He smiled and took a step inside. | “Body o’ me! Ido believe it’s Lord Darlington.” He nodded his head and smiled. “You know all about it, don’t you, Goody? And you are our friend, I am sure,” he said. “A very pleasant spoken young gentleman as ever was,” thought Goody, and she answered him : “T nursed Miss Violet from a baby, your lordship, and the very first blessed word she ever spoke—and that not so her own father could understand, even if he’d cared to, which I must say he didn’t, bein’ taken up with other things always—that word was ‘Dood,’ which she meant for Goody, and the same I’ve always been to her. Her friend I am and all that’s her true friends, which I hope your lordship are.” “So Violet has always told me, Goody, and that is why ; aoe to you to-night, when T think you can help us oth.” | “And help she needs, poor Ten: “Well, I’m sure, Goody, that you and I will do any- thing in this world to make her happy. She has told me so much about you that when I found how crooked every- - thing was going I made up my mind to come to you. | Eomicbooks.com